Ebook: Wealth and Life

First published in 1930, this book endeavours to trace and express the relations between economic and human values, between wealth and life. Hobson studies everything from the role of production processes and consumption in the determination of human welfare; to the changing attitudes of economic science towards ethical considerations; as well as the tendency of organised society to exercise a control of economic processes in the interests of equity, humanity, and social order. Part I of the book deals with an attempt to provide an intelligible and consistent meaning for human value.;Cover; Wealth and Life; Copyright Page; Title Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTORY; PART I--STANDARDS OF WELFARE; CHAPTER I THE HUMANIST APPROACH TO ECONOMIC LIFE; CHAPTER II THE MEANING OF WELFARE; CHAPTER III WELFARE THROUGH COMMUNITY; CHAPTER IV STANDARDS OF WELFARE; CHAPTER V THE HIERARCHY OF VALUES; PART II--ETHICS IN THE EVOLUTION OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE; CHAPTER I THE PLACE OF INDUSTRY IN THE LIFE PROCESS; CHAPTER II THE EMERGENCE OF ECONOMICS AS A SCIENCE; CHAPTER III ECONOMIC AND ETHICAL VALUES; PART III--THE ETHICS OF ECONOMIC LIFE; CHAPTER I ETHICS OF PROPERTY.